WordCamp season is in full effect, and this weekend WordCamp Jacksonville (#WCJAX) takes place. WebDevStudios (WDS) Senior Frontend Developer, Jeffrey de Wit, will be there. While he’s certainly excited to be a part of the event and mingle with the gracious Jacksonville community, he’s very eager to get his hands on the cow-decorated camp T-shirt. […]
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It’s a buzzword creating a lot of conversation within the WordPress community and causing digital marketers across the globe to plan and strategize for the after-effects—Gutenberg. A major new feature that has been in development for over a year, Gutenberg is coming with the release of WordPress 5.0 and is the largest side-initiative ever merged into the core
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Here at WebDevStudios (WDS), we have always been huge proponents of open-source software. Since 2014, we have proudly participated in Five for the Future (#5ftf), an initiative designed to encourage WordPress consultancies and agencies to dedicate 5% of company time back to the WordPress community. In 2016, we contributed 1,500 hours to WordPress and #5ftf. Last
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We are pleased to announce the addition of Shayda Torabi to the WebDevStudios (WDS) team. Shayda will fill the role of Director of Marketing beginning today, December 1st, as she joins a group of nine WDS teammates at WordCamp US. Shayda has over 10 years of experience with WordPress, and she comes to WDS after spending five consecutive years
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Many moons ago, one of our fearless leaders at WebDevStudios, Brad Williams, started the local Philly WordPress Meetup. Not too soon after, he and a group of brilliant local folks laid the foundation for WordCamp Philly. Touted (by me) as one of the most successful WordCamps in the world, most people tend to agree that
Featuring eight workshops and over 30 speakers in the span of two days, the WooCommerce Developers Conference (WooConf) promises to be a jam-packed event of information, growth, and networking. WebDevStudios COO, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, and Client Strategist, Jodie Riccelli, will be in attendance at this ultimate event for the WooCommerce community, which takes place in Seattle, October
It’s another action-packed weekend with two WordCamp events happening somewhat simultaneously. And two WebDevStudios (WDS) team members will be speaking at each one, offering insight, guidance, and education. Kellen Mace, Lead Backend Developer First, there’s WordCamp Ann Arbor, October 13-14, 2017. Lead Backend Developer, Kellen Mace, is donating his time to the Developer Track, as
WebDevStudios (WDS) would like to proudly introduce you to BRAD. No, not Brad Williams, our CEO. We mean the WordPress plugin you didn’t even know you needed till now: Better Responsibility Around Discoverability, aka BRAD. Developers Aaron Jorbin and Andrew Norcross created the BRAD plugin after our own Brad tweeted this: I REALLY wish this was
Your WordPress editor is about to get a makeover! While the details aren’t complete yet, we know that soon, the way we edit our content in WordPress is going to change. It’s called the Gutenberg Editor, and the time has come for you to prepare for it. Typically when you log into your website, you go
Photo by Andrew Wulf on Unsplash One of my favorite things to do as a developer is rubber ducking with other devs. If you aren’t familiar with rubber ducking, the term comes from the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a dev would explain, line by line, their code to a rubber duck. Writing code is hard, and
